(CNN)-- Walter Cronkite ... and this time Cronkite took the network up on its offer. But now the medium was television. Cronkite became the anchor of WTOP-TV, armed with little more than wire ...

Hailed as "the most trusted man in America" during his 18 years as anchor of the "CBS Evening News," Walter Cronkite first gained national recognition for his reporting from the battlefields of ...